Champagne Pool
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BrianpSlade
July 16, 2013
A stunning lead to compliment a stunning capture....well done & congrats!...Brian
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This is the famous Champagne Pool at Waiotapu Geothermal Area - Wai-O-Tapu, Rotorua New ZealandTime
We spent a few hours in the morning wondering around the geothermal area - there is a lot to see - looking for diffrent points of view and lighting. this image was taken at 11:30Lighting
The lighting on our visit was generally bright and sunny but there was the occasional cloud and the steam rising from the pools allowed me frame and light the shot differently to the 'standard' bright orange and blue sky shot - I got a few of those as well!Equipment
The image was taken hand held with the Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical lens on a Canon 7D - using tripods around the thermal pools can be a bit dodgy so decided to mostly not use one on our visitInspiration
I wanted to capture a slightly different shot of the pool from the iconic travel image - one that showed the raw power and textures of the active landscapeEditing
Even though hand held I blended two shots using luminosity masking techniques to bring out the edge details and textures of the pool crust and orange shallows. this also allowed me the emphasis the shadow areas without increasing excessive noiseIn my camera bag
I now use Canon 5dm3 with 24mm TSE, 17-40mm f4, 50mm f1.8, Tamron 90 f2.8 macro,Sigma 70-200mm f2.8, 120-300mm f2.8, 1.4 teleconverter Canon 7D, Tamron 17-50mm f2.8,Tokina 11-16mm f2.8Feedback
When travelling and visiting iconic sites I like to wonder around without taking images for a while if possible and look for the images that stand out then look to see if the lighting will change/improve if I can wait or return to the spot. Often you are only going to be at a site once for a few hours or even less and you may not get the luxury of returning even within a visit so make sure you get the images you need at the time and take with a view as to the type of post processing you are planning for the type of shot - for example bracket if you are going to blend images or if you are planning to remove other people take a large series of images from a tripod or other stable base. The more you develop your post processing skills and the more you travel you can usually work out what you will need to produce the image you have in mind when you get back to base.
